Robert Yeates, "American Cities in Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction "
English | ISBN: 1800081006 | 2022 | 212 pages | EPUB | 7 MB
English | ISBN: 1800081006 | 2022 | 212 pages | EPUB | 7 MB
A fresh, provocative history of urban ruins in popular culture.
American Cities in Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction traces the image of urban ruins across twentieth- and twenty-first-century American media. Surveying pulp magazines, radio dramas, films, video games, and the transmedia franchise, Robert Yeates explores how the synergy of technological innovation and artistic vision created an increasingly immersive space to reimagine the urban future. Through a series of medium-specific case studies, Yeates offers provocative new readings of familiar works such as
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